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It's a class thing, and definitely a midwestern thing. I ate them as a child because they were dirt cheap and I could make them on my own. Often, I ate mine with a box of Kraft Mac & Cheez. The modern equivalent is probably frozen chicken nuggets.

You've probably seen them at restaurants. Something like the Fillet-o-Fish. Other fast food joints offer similar items during lint.

They aren't bad. As is typical with frozen, deep fried food, they really don't taste like anything. So I wouldn't really go out of your way to try one. The IQF fish fillets you can get in the grocery store are better in every respect.

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> They aren't bad. As is typical with frozen, deep fried food, they really don't taste like anything. So I wouldn't really go out of your way to try one. The IQF fish fillets you can get in the grocery store are better in every respect.

If you have a food-processor and a herb-pantry, you can make your own fried fish with far superior tasting breading.

1. Bread selection: choose a bread that doesn't burn: fried oil is very high temperature. White-bread is fine, "Hawaiian rolls" are terrible. Various home-made breads are great.

2. Toast the bread, a few slices is all you need for a few slabs of fish.

3. Use a food-processor to break the bread into breadcrumbs.

4. Herbs: any combination that tastes good. I use Basil, Oregano, Rosemary, Salt and Pepper, take nibbles of the concoction until it tastes good.

5. Flour the fish with your right hand, drop it into egg+milk mix with your left hand, then drop the fish into breadcrumbs with your right hand. (Right hand dry, left hand wet)

6. 30-minutes in the refrigerator

7. Fry the fish, you're done!

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Its not as easy as fish-sticks though. Pull em out, put them on a baking sheet and cook. But the breading-process for good-tasting fried fish is easier than I expected.

I think you mean Lent, the 40-day (minus Sundays) season when traditional and mainline Christians give up a physical pleasure, like red meat or chocolate, as a sign of repentance and devotion. Not lint, the detritus that comes out of the clothes dryer, from the word linen.

New startup idea: the lintless dryer.

Yes, that's what I meant. I haven't been to church in decades, so I haven't seen Lent spelled out in a long time.

Just curious, do you speak English with an accent that has the words Lent and lint pronounced the same, or nearly the same? For example, do you pronounce "pen" and "pin" identically? The sounds are close, but in some accents the words are pronounced exactly the same.

Grew up in Ohio. I pronounce pen and pin the same way unless I am purposely trying to not, then I think I try to make pin a little more nasally but still pretty much sounds the same.

Lent and lint always sound the same.

Depends on the brand. Some of them are pretty neutral, like a cheap knockoff of fish and chips. Others are much more fishy tasting, which I would not describe as a good thing.

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